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Liu Tong

Late Ming essayist from Macheng who, with Yu Yizheng, wrote the Beijing topography Dijing jingwu lue in the terse style of the Jingling school.

Also known as Zi Tongren · Hao Ge'an

Liu Tong, courtesy name Tongren, sobriquet Ge'an, came from Macheng in Huguang. He passed the Shuntian provincial examination in 1633 and the metropolitan examination in 1634, and after a probation at the Ministry of Personnel he was appointed magistrate of Wu county in 1637, but died at Yangzhou on his way to the post. With Yu Yizheng, a licentiate of Wanping, he wrote the Dijing jingwu lue in eight juan: Yu gathered the facts and Liu shaped them into prose. Arranged by district, from the north, east, south and west of the city to the Western Hills and the capital region, it describes the gardens, temples, sights and festivals of Beijing in a spare, angular style close to the Jingling school.

Life and times

  1. 1596 CEBornMingQing
  2. 1637 CEDiedby another account 1593–1636

Works

  1. Literature · Prose10
    1. Sights and Scenes of the Imperial CapitalMingLiu Tong and Yu Yizheng's late-Ming portrait of Beijing's sights and seasonal customs
    2. Sights and Scenes of the Imperial Capital: North of the City, Inside and OutsideMing
    3. Sights and Scenes of the Imperial Capital: East of the City, Inside and OutsideMing
    4. Sights and Scenes of the Imperial Capital: South of the City, Inside and OutsideMing
    5. Sights and Scenes of the Imperial Capital: Western City, InsideMing
    6. +5 more
      1. Sights and Scenes of the Imperial Capital: Western City, OutsideMing
      2. Sights and Scenes of the Imperial Capital: Western Hills, Part OneMing
      3. Sights and Scenes of the Imperial Capital: Western Hills, Part TwoMing
      4. Sights and Scenes of the Imperial Capital: Famous Sites of the Capital RegionMing
      5. Sights and Scenes of the Imperial Capital: Seasonal Customs from the Spring GroundMing